What Wattpad is, Tapas is not. Here people generally follow books and not authors.
To me, this is the underlying problem with Wattpad. If I'm marketing a book, what I want people to follow is my book, and not myself: I used to get streams of constant new followers, but nobody who was following was even bothering to read my work.
To me, that's incredible deceiving.
I'm not marketing myself, I am marketing my books.
When I'm marketing a product like a book, I'm not here to market myself. I am not a product, I don't come into a can to feed people's mouths.
When a reader opens a book, they want to know what that book is about, not why I think they should read the book.
Basing followers on author rathers than books adversely effects self-esteem, something that has been extremely low for me anyway for over a decade.
This cuts out a lot of book publishing from people that generally aren't very marketable in and of themselves.
But what it comes down to, I'm not a "marketable person", and it's a very weird way of looking at marketing to think of it that way.